Dave beat me to it! BUT here it is anyway... The 'z-fighting' when two materials 'twinkle' is caused when you have two coplanar [or near coplanar] faces . So you seem to have some 'walls' with two [or more] faces Check if you have coincident groups/instances giving you two faces overlaid... Some windows are cutting faces OK BUT others are not! Have you some groups/components and other groups/components or faces overlaying them? Also it looks like you have applied windows onto faces that are inside groups/component... so although it might 'glue', it will NOT 'cut' a hole - therefore the window's 'glass' will z-fight with the wall face that is inside its group. If it is a gluing component, but it is not 'cutting type', then it will z-fight even if the face and component are in the same 'entities context'. So, always apply a gluing+cutting-component onto the face that is in the same 'context' [i.e. edit the group/instance and then insert/glue the windows on faces inside it - the windows will then cut holes in the faces they are glued onto].[image: MJJk_Capture.PNG]

Hi Guys, are there anyone on these boards familiar with roofing geometry? Could become a very interesting discussion topic?

Nice work Anthony. And welcome to SCF.

post some vidoes review for the sketchup model please...! tq!

I think if you could make the exports somewhat larger than they'll get viewed at, you'll be fine. It can be disconcerting when you look at images close up. i used to run into that a lot in the photography business. People would look at enlargements as if they were small prints and complain they weren't sharp. When they looked at them under normal viewing conditions, everything was alright. I hope you can make something work.

Dear jean Thank you for your help. I really appreciate it. sincerely A.A

thanks Dave

@rc5 said: @bob james said: @unknownuser said: sketchup gives a bug splat when i close the window. This happens to me often I also am continually plagued with the right-click menu being greyed out. So I have to weed out the conflicting plugin(s). I've seen this grayed out thing very often, but not the component browser. May I have the list of plugins that are the culprit? It's not a 'culprit' plugin or two. It's a result of the number of plugins you have loading - the context-menu etc can only support a certain number of 'commands' - if you exceed it by having hundreds of plugins vying for space it will 'gray-out'. This is a discussion about it AND even a plugin that tries to optimize 'command' usage http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=252413#p252413 . However its success will be limited if you have too many plugins loading - you can 'spring-clean' and disable the ones you never use that are contributing to the 'critical-mass' that's tipping you over the 'gray-out' limit - rename the little used .rb files with .TXT suffix, and then if you find later you want it to revert you can just remove the suffix and restart, OR to load it for that session only use ' load "xxxx.rb.TXT"' in the Ruby Console - where 'xxxx' is the tool/script's name. Note that if you have the latest version of your plugins then this will also help - a few scripts [including several of Fredo's] were found to contribute to this 'gray-out' issue by making 'duplicated' commands - as far as I know they have all be updated many months ago to avoid this contributory factor... Look through your Plugins and the Plugins Index to ensure you are up to date too...

@dave r said: How about this? Color the wall with the color of the paint and name the material "drywall" Paint the box blue and rename the blue material "20 ga. sheet metal" Paint the piece of furniture with a woodgrain material the color of the stained cherry and name it "cherry" A simple note can identify the finish. +1 I always try to name my material so I can find and reuse them. A model becomes messy if you keep picking the same colour from the material browser - ending up with many materials of the exact same colour. That just lead to a pain when you want to change it later on. Give material a semantic meaning and make sure you use the correct one for the correct place. Managing materials becomes so much easier that way.

A 3d DWG/DXF maintains layering etc.

@gaieus said: There's the solid tools > union in SU 8 (Pro). wow thanks man

Thnx guys... I appreciate your helps

Once you have opened the files in a newer version run Model Info > Fix Problems... and Purge Unused if appropriate... Then save as the new version... There's no simple way of automating this...

I would not bother myself with that sentence. It is what it is meant for: a "suggestion" or a "description" of the product - maybe more exactly the intent or the idea of the creators when separating the two. "Suggestion" and "recommendation" are not legal terms (well this latter one has some EU usage but only for governments). It was disallowe to use SU Free (beta) when it came out with version 5 right after Google acquired SU. Then it was explicitely allowed during SU 6 and this explicit sentence was removed when SU 7 (and the new SU Google site) came out (so not with SU 8 that was just - or rather EXACTLY - a year ago).

I just corrected the link in the above post. Here it is for easy reference. http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=39846

You probably did - I probably was just pre-occupied with scaling issue. Thanks.

Thank you Guys

Hi Danny, You can install the pro version and after 8 hs of use, it will simply revert to the free functionality. http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=60107 (I'd suggest this rather than downloading something from some obscure site)

Another one I've just noticed is: DAE Viewer 3D https://market.android.com/details?id=com.afanche.android.ATView3D_DAE&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsImNvbS5hZmFuY2hlLmFuZHJvaWQuQVRWaWV3M0RfREFFIl0. Only $3 CDN vs $15 for SightSpace 3d. Unfortunately my rooted Nook won't run Glovius.

@rock1 said: @pbacot said: Sorry it's not working. And you ARE in perspective camera view? Yes I am in perspective. Sketchup is really troubling me sometimes in the components browser, on clicking the down arrow drop down menu in it when I click components, it gets stuck. i.e. for e.g. if I have the landscape library opened and i want to go back to the architecture pack it won't show up. When I restart sketchup, it starts working fine. Looks like my system has a sketchup virus or somethin' you have another post for this question... try to keep your posts together and not spread out. this is a known issue called clipping. your model has extremely small geometry and extremely big geometry... and the origin is to far from the farthest point.